Anthony G. Hopp

Partner

Overview

Anthony Hopp is an experienced trial lawyer who represents clients in complex commercial, environmental, and mass tort matters. Tony handles all phases of single plaintiff, multi-plaintiff, and class action claims, and has tried multiple cases to verdict in state and federal courts. He has also argued and won appeals in Illinois, California, New York, Nebraska, and the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Some of these matters include defeating class certification for medical monitoring after a multi-day evidentiary hearing, obtaining defense verdicts on medical monitoring claims in a subsequent jury trial, securing defense verdicts in five TCE groundwater contamination claims after a three week jury trial, negotiating a favorable settlement after a two week class action trial involving TCE groundwater contamination, and obtaining multiple preliminary injunctions in cases involving Lanham Act violations, trade secret claims, and breaches of post-employment restrictive covenants.

Tony has been on the Board of Directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing (LCBH) since 2006. In 2005, he received the LCBH Volunteer of the Year award. Starting in 2009, he served as president of the Board of Directors for five years.

Illinois

US District Court, Northern District of Illinois

US District Court, Central District of Illinois

US District Court, Southern District of Illinois

US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

US Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

J.D., University of Illinois, 1988, summa cum laude, Order of the Coif